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The Captive Heart

“Would you forge love letters to save your life?”

1946 · 1 h 26 min
Directed by Basil Dearden
DramaWar

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

A series of stories about the lives and hopes of British prisoners of war in a German camp, and the Czech officer among them.

Sinekatalog’s take

Basil Dearden's war drama, with Michael Redgrave and Mervyn Johns, is humane and gripping, one of the best British POW films.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (1,312 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.